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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Sian Lewis

The Holiday cottage doesn’t actually exist – but here are 10 cosy countryside stays just like it

The picture perfect Laundry Cottage in Coombe Hay - (Laundry Cottage)

Christmas is just around the corner and if you’re snuggling up to watch Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet’s life-swapping festive favourite The Holiday, you may be fantasising about a stay in the film’s other star – the chocolate box country cottage owned by Winslet’s character, Iris.

Resplendent in honey-hued stone, smoke curling from the chimney and surrounded by freshly laid snow, it might just be the cosiest bolthole on screen. But – heartbreakingly for fans – Jude Law has recently revealed that Iris’s Surrey cottage doesn’t actually exist.

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